The essays collected in this volume identify and analyse the presence of immigrants in late medieval England. Drawing on unique evidence from the alien subsidies collected in England between 1440 and 1487 and other newly accessible archival resources, and deploying a wide range of historical and cultural methods, they reveal the considerable contribution of foreign-born people to the economy, society and culture of England in the age of the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses.

W. Mark Ormrod is Professor of History, Nicola McDonald is Senior Lecturer in English, and Craig Taylor is Reader in History, all at the University of York. They specialise in the culture and society of the later Middle Ages, especially in England and France. Their books include: Ormrod, Edward III (Yale University Press, 2011); McDonald (ed.), Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance (Manchester University Press, 2004); and Taylor, Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

3. Sarah Rees Jones (University of York): 'Scots in the North of England: The First Alien Subsidy, 1440-43'4. Peter Fleming (University of the West of England): 'Icelanders in England in the Fifteenth Century'5. Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli (University of Florence) and Jessica Lutkin (University of Reading): 'Perception, Identity and Culture: The Italian Communities in Fifteenth-Century London and Southampton Revisited'6. Alan Kissane (University of Nottingham) and Jonathan Mackman (University of York): 'Aliens and the Law in Late Medieval Lincolnshire'7. Christian D. Liddy (Durham University) and Bart Lambert (Durham University): 'The Civic Franchise and the Regulation of Aliens in Great Yarmouth, c. 1430-c. 1490'